diff --git a/capplets/common/Makefile.am b/capplets/common/Makefile.am
index 5362f2e2b..d7815b881 100644
--- a/capplets/common/Makefile.am
+++ b/capplets/common/Makefile.am
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST =
 AM_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-DMATECC_DATA_DIR="\"$(pkgdatadir)\""				\
 	-DMATELOCALEDIR="\"$(datadir)/locale\""				\
+	-DMATEDATADIR="\"$(datadir)\""				\
 	-DGTK_ENGINE_DIR="\"$(GTK_ENGINE_DIR)\"" 			\
 	-DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"capplet-common\"				\
 	-DINSTALL_PREFIX=\"$(prefix)\"					\
diff --git a/capplets/common/gtkrc-utils.c b/capplets/common/gtkrc-utils.c
index 4b5ac0e19..2fac2e93d 100644
--- a/capplets/common/gtkrc-utils.c
+++ b/capplets/common/gtkrc-utils.c
@@ -176,6 +176,51 @@ void gtkrc_get_details(gchar* filename, GSList** engines, GSList** symbolic_colo
 	g_scanner_destroy (scanner);
 }
 
+static const GScannerConfig gtk_rc_scanner_config =
+{
+  (
+   " \t\r\n"
+   )            /* cset_skip_characters */,
+  (
+   "_"
+   G_CSET_a_2_z
+   G_CSET_A_2_Z
+   )            /* cset_identifier_first */,
+  (
+   G_CSET_DIGITS
+   "-_"
+   G_CSET_a_2_z
+   G_CSET_A_2_Z
+   )            /* cset_identifier_nth */,
+  ( "#\n" )     /* cpair_comment_single */,
+
+  TRUE          /* case_sensitive */,
+
+  TRUE          /* skip_comment_multi */,
+  TRUE          /* skip_comment_single */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_comment_multi */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_identifier */,
+  FALSE         /* scan_identifier_1char */,
+  FALSE         /* scan_identifier_NULL */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_symbols */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_binary */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_octal */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_float */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_hex */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_hex_dollar */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_string_sq */,
+  TRUE          /* scan_string_dq */,
+  TRUE          /* numbers_2_int */,
+  FALSE         /* int_2_float */,
+  FALSE         /* identifier_2_string */,
+  TRUE          /* char_2_token */,
+  TRUE          /* symbol_2_token */,
+  FALSE         /* scope_0_fallback */,
+  FALSE         /* store_int64 */,
+
+  0             /* < private > padding_dummy*/,
+};
+
 gchar *
 gtkrc_get_color_scheme (const gchar *gtkrc_file)
 {
@@ -184,7 +229,7 @@ gtkrc_get_color_scheme (const gchar *gtkrc_file)
 	GSList *files = NULL;
 	GSList *read_files = NULL;
 	GTokenType token;
-	GScanner *scanner = gtk_rc_scanner_new ();
+	GScanner *scanner = g_scanner_new (&gtk_rc_scanner_config);
 
 	g_scanner_scope_add_symbol (scanner, 0, "include", INCLUDE_SYMBOL);
 	g_scanner_scope_add_symbol (scanner, 0, "gtk_color_scheme", COLOR_SCHEME_SYMBOL);
diff --git a/capplets/common/mate-theme-test.c b/capplets/common/mate-theme-test.c
index 8e5ed73c1..aef052d1c 100644
--- a/capplets/common/mate-theme-test.c
+++ b/capplets/common/mate-theme-test.c
@@ -3,6 +3,22 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include "mate-theme-info.h"
 
+static gchar *
+mate_rc_get_theme_dir (void)
+{
+  const gchar *var;
+  gchar *path;
+
+  var = g_getenv ("GTK_DATA_PREFIX");
+
+  if (var)
+    path = g_build_filename (var, "share", "themes", NULL);
+  else
+    path = g_build_filename (MATEDATADIR, "share", "themes", NULL);
+
+  return path;
+}
+
 int
 main (int argc, char *argv[])
 {
@@ -71,7 +87,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
       gchar *str;
 
       g_print ("No gtk-2 themes were found.  The following directories were tested:\n");
-      str = gtk_rc_get_theme_dir ();
+      str = mate_rc_get_theme_dir ();
       g_print ("\t%s\n", str);
       g_free (str);
       str = g_build_filename (g_get_home_dir (), ".themes", NULL);